Irving Elementary

During the month of April staff at Irving Elementary celebrated the dedicated, hardworking paras/support staff who help make our school great! Students surprised support staff with affirmations of how they are helpful and an egg hunt was held with lots of fun prizes in eggs. The golden egg was found by Kate Singer, ELL tutor. She won a $50 Visa gift card. Thank you to all of the support staff for all that you do throughout the school year!

• Irving Elementary School received the prestigious National Showcase School Award on Friday, May 5th. Because of the rigor of our evaluation process, the Capturing Kids’ Hearts National Showcase Schools® Award is both a high aspiration and an exemplary recognition of excellence. Capturing Kids’ Hearts® is proud to recognize the outstanding educators who have dedicated themselves to making a difference in the lives of our children.

• *Because of the rigor of our evaluation process, the Capturing Kids’ Hearts National Showcase Schools® Award is both a high aspiration and an exemplary recognition of excellence. Capturing Kids’ Hearts® is proud to recognize the outstanding educators who have dedicated themselves to making a difference in the lives of our children.

• *For the 2022-2023 school year, the Capturing Kid’s Hearts National Showcase Schools® Award was granted to 468 school campuses across the United States.

June 2nd-4th Winfield will be celebrating 150 years with a lot of family activities. Mrs. Abernathy and helpers will be setting up an Irving carnival booth on June 2nd from 6:30-8:30 at Island Park. We invite you all to stop by the booth and have some fun!

Mrs. Bowker is still taking donations of pop tabs for the Ronald McDonald House. You can send your pop tabs to the library at Irving until the last day of school.

5th graders challenged the Irving staff members in the annual tug-of-war contest. 5th grade fought hard but in the end the staff prevailed! We wish all of our 5th graders good luck as they move on to the middle school!

After voting concluded the following teachers had the most votes:

Mr. Keller 1st Place-had to kiss a chicken

Ms. Bionca 2nd Place-had to kiss a goat

Mrs. Dougherty 3rd Place-had to kiss a rabbit

Many classes had fun celebrating the year by taking a field trip. Thank you to all the parents who joined in on the fun!

A lot of exciting things going on in art this month!

K-4 th grades have been working in the dark. They have been working under a

black light creating amazing glowing art.

Kindergarten recreated Jeff Koon’s Balloon Dog Statues.

First grade created Glowing Cock-a-too birds.

Second grade created insects with glowing bodies.

Third grade are making vines with chameleons.

Fourth grade are constructing a cave diorama with an explorer hanging in mid-

ground.

Fifth grade are working on their final piece—a multi-layer canvas abstract art

piece.

All grades learned about the stages of a chicken embryo while we had eggs in an

incubator for 21 days. We had 11 chicks hatch out. First grade did an art project

of a mother hen sitting on a clutch of eggs and hatching them out.

Kindergarten’s final project will be the life cycle of a butterfly, so all grades

watched as Painted Lady caterpillars grew, created a chrysalis, and came out as a

butterfly!

Mrs. Stone’s third grade collaborated with art class to publish a book that they

wrote and illustrated. It was so exciting to see it in print!

During exploration day, 33 students worked really hard to turn dyed and carded

wool into sheets of felt through a process called WET FELTING. It was unanimous

that it was something they wanted to do again next year in art!

Last month in art class, all students designed an entry for a drawing contest

sponsored by Winfield Arts and Humanities, William Newton Hospital Auxiliary,

and USD 465. The theme for the contest was “How do you deal with BIG

feelings?” There were over 800 entries in the contest. Irving had 5 winners and 11

honorable mentions. Way to go IRVING students! You know how to deal with big

Feelings! Our winners were: Hadi Briles, Bryhahna Martain, Emma Norris, Kenzzi

Guadalupe and Isis Romero. Our honorable mentions winners were: Kylie

George, Lyncoln Lewis, Owen Norris, Ellis Pipes-Ternes, Oliver Munn, Erica Rax,

Jewley Insley, Amelia East, Avery Peppers, and Maggie Jones.

Students from Irving were recognized at the Arts and Humanities reception held at Baden Square.

On a rainy Friday afternoon 25 students from Southwestern College Preprofessional Health Club and Educational Builders club showed up at Irving Elementary to make the annual Irving Field Day a success. There were lots of indoor games and the chance to plant flowers for the outdoor classroom. Judging from the cheers and smiles another successful field day is in the books.

A great big THANK YOU to USD 465 Foundation Grants for suppling the funds to purchase supplies to make this day a success.

Thank you to our 5th grade STUCO leaders for all the work this year. We wish you the best in middle school!

STUCO members had fun surprising Mr. Everett on Principal's Day!

Thank you to students, staff and parents for participating in the Irving Book Fair! Students were able to purchase books for themselves and students loved it! Remember to check out all the fun activities at the Winfield Public Library this summer for kids! Keep reading over the summer!

Irving had 54 students obtain a Winfield Public Library card! Thank you to all parents who signed their students up for a card. There is still time to get a library card. All parents need to do is stop in at the public library and tell the staff you are an Irving student. This summer all staff at Irving encourage you to READ, READ, READ! Happy Summer!

Mrs. McNutt in Irving's Library, challenges 3rd-5th graders to read the William Allen White Award books each year. Students have the whole year to read books off of the list. On May 2nd, this team of three had the opportunity to travel to Lowell Elementary and participate in the Battle of the Books. Congratulations to Ellyn Smith, Emma Norris and Kadynce Hedges for placing 1st in the Battle of the Books. The team missed their teammate Kendyl Higdon but wished her well as she was selected to sing in the SW choir event.

On May 2nd Mrs. Camp had the opportunity to take 6 students to an Honor choir hosted by the Southwestern College Children's Choir. Students from Irving, Whittier, Lowell, Holy Name, and Ark City Elementary schools, rehearsed all day preparing 5 songs for a concert held at Richardson Auditorium on the SC campus. The choir was led by Ark City elementary music teacher Nikki Kirk.

The students that participated were, Ivonna, William, Ty, Rilynn, Kendyl, and Mileena.

Rehearsal started at 9, and continued through 5 pm, with breaks, concluding with the concert a 6 pm.

Our students represented Irving very well!! They had a super day, and in addition to the experience of it all, the" hit" of the day was the SC cafeteria lunch!! :)

They were "big" eyed and amazed at their choices of entrees, an ice cream machine, and other baked treats!! But you should have seen the SC students' reaction with 100-ish elementary kids running around!

2nd graders went on a walking field trip to get a tour of the Winfield Public Library. Ms. Jo let students play and then read the book, The Garbage Barge. The students all had such a great time and we hope they visit Ms.Jo over the summer!

Mrs. Dougherty's class is holding something green…Ms. Jo gave all the students biodegradable trash sacks to use at home!

Email: jeff_everett@usd465.com
Website: https://irving.usd465.com/
Location: 311 Harter Street, Winfield, KS, USA
Phone: 620-221-5140